KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 19

Bal Krishna Sah, the Himalayan Times reporter, received a Global AMR special mention award in the Southeast Asian regional category of the Global AMR Media Awards 2024, along with Dr. Tin Maung Htwe (Myanmar), a senior columnist for Standard Time, a Burmese-language newspaper in Myanmar, and Rindi Salsabilla (Indonesia), a noted journalist with CNBC Indonesia.

The Global AMR Media Alliance presented the award during its fourth Global Media Forum, which took place virtually on Thursday, November 7th, after reviewing 413 applications from 43 countries.

The AMR Media Awards, which debuted this year, sought submissions from all six WHO regions, with winners chosen in regional and global categories.

Shobha Shukla, the founder of the Global AMR Media Alliance, stated that the awards are intended to encourage sensitive and responsible AMR reporting.